Hair covering cap with spacer



y 1960 H. N. OLSEN HAIR COVERING CAP WITH SPACER Fiied Oct. 8, 1958 INVENTOR. /0 HELEN 1v. OLSEN ATTORNEY.

. 9 ,556 HAIR COVERING-CAP WITH SPACER i Helen N. Olsen, 913 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.,

Kentfield, Calif.

Filed on. s, 1958, Ser. No. 765,970 2 Claims. 01.132 46 Thisinvention relates to hair covering caps with spacer member therein and more particularly relates to such caps which are useful inmanipulations of the hair on the human head for any suitable hair treatment, and espe cially in bleaching and tinting operations and the socalled touch-up process. It may also find advantageous adaptability in hair waving, shampooingand other suitable manipulations \of the hair.

I To more fully and clearly define the invention, a prefatory statement of purposes and advantages may be set forth as a premise. I

'Itwill be recognized that the ,hu'manhair has growth from the scalp, and that in the operations of bleaching or tintin'g'or dyeing or the hair, the newly grown hair close to the scalpfwill have its natural color-which will not correspond with the color of the bleached or tinted color of the more 'extended shafts or strands of hair which have been previously tinted or bleached and subsequently grown to greater lengthi This new growth of hair closely adjacent to the scalp will become apparent at the scalp in' a period of ten to fifteen'days'. Yet, in such cases it is not desirable to again subject the'entire body'or mass of the hair to a bleaching or tinting solution because hair is limited -in its resistance to bleach or tint; solutions which by repeated application to the same length of hair shaft or strand may make the strand susceptible to weakjacent to the scalp made accessible by said parts, such application being conveniently made by means of a suitable small swab, usually a tuft of absorbent cotton mounted at one end of a manually manipulable swabstick. After such application to the newly grown hair, it is customary to dry the app'liedsolution on the hair, which may be accomplished by enclosing the hair and the, scalp within a heat-retaining cover and drying it by the confined heat of the body temperature or by mechanical drying appara tus or both. During thedrying operation it is desirable for reasons stated'above, that the previously tinted or bleached hair shall not be depressed into contact with the newly treated hair, and that the hair mass be maintained loose and readily permeable by the heat.

It is, therefore, an object of the invention to provide a cap or covering for. loosely and freely enclosing the hair and which will p'ulf or balloon away from the hair mass, such cap readily and resiliently gripping the head adjacently to the scalp line. 'A further object is to provide in a balloon-type of hair covering cap .a -means for sup-" porting the crown portion or peak of the cap away from the hair at the apex of the cap.

. Fig. 5 isan enlarged perspective 'viewof a spacer member shown in Figs, 1, 2 and 3.

Fig. 6 is a frontelevational view 'illustrating'a head of hair having parts therein preparatory to'op'eratio nal treatment in use of the cap.

To overcome the difiiculties it is customary to resort to a treatment which in the hair-dressing art is generally termed a touch-up meaning thereby a treatment of the newly grown hair whereby it is bleached or tinted to correspond with the coloring of the more extended growth of the previously bleached or tinted hair. Such touch-up treatment keeps the hair in a uniform condition throughout the length of the hair shaft, maintains desired, shades throughout the hair mass and promotes a soft natural condition, free of dry, brittle, broken and overtreatedhair which creates an obviously dry and dyed artificial appearance.

Such. a touch-up operation is accomplished by dividing the hair into closely-spaced substantially parallel locks which are preferably continuous across the scalp from front to back, providing therebetween at the scalp what are usually termed parts to the hair, thus exposing to manipulation or treatment relatively narrow rows of new! Referring to the drawing in which 'like'reference'char acters indicate corresponding parts in the several views, 9 indicates generally a head of hair which is the subject" of treatment, and 10 indicates generally the cap of the invention, having a balloon-like or bulbous bodyfportion 1 1 offiexible sheet material which preferably is a moistureimpervious plastic sheet material smooth at both surfaces, since such; a material isnon-absorbent'and adapted for extroversion for readily rinsing and cleaning'of the cap.

The crown portion 11a of the balloon-like or bulbous body is of much greater transverse diameter than the outer diameter of the hair mass it is intended to enclose,

so that when mounted upon the hair it will stand out from V the hair without substantial pressure upon the hair body. The cap has an opening 12 normally of less diameter than the crown portion for receiving therethrough the hair and scalp portion of the head, .said opening being edged by a continuous elastic crimping or shirr band 13 which is enclosed by theedge portion of the plastic sheet material surrounding the opening 12, the body portion of the sheet material enclosing the elastic ba'nd'being crimped or'shirred by gatherings as at 14, thus contracting the surplus length of material enclosing the elastic band, whereby the opening may normally be of smaller diameter than the crown portion and may be manually spread-to a larger diameter to pass over the hair and return to the smaller diameter responsive to the elastic band, thereby gripping the scalp .adjacently below the hair line. The elastic band may have a width suflicient to provide a band-which lies flatly against the head. The.

crimped gatherings .14 at the edge of the opening provide plaits 15 in the crown portion adjacent to the band. When Patented July 12,1960 1 cated a. Thus the crown portion of the cap adjacent to. said opening is pufied radially outwardly from the hair adjacent to the band and the hair line of the scalp,

thereby eliminating pressure upon the fluifed hair in the spacer member to the. sheet, material; of the flexible cap.

is. preferably. a releasable nonrperforating attachment, so

that itmay-be removedufor any desiredpurpose, suchv as.

cleansingv the. cap. Such a connection maybe accomplished by forming. thefiexible sheet material. of the cap body closely against.- the connecting. end of the spacer member and. deforming. thegfiexible sheet. material of the cap. into. close. contact. with the adjacent circumferential side wall. of the spacer member and releasablyclamping thesheet material: tothe end'portion of. the spacer memher. by. a. clamping cup L8.which snugly. encloses the sheet material. and the end. of the spacer member relatively. At its opposite end portion the spacer member is provided; with. radially spread feet 19. preferably. integral with the spacer member, and extending substantially perpendicularly radially outwardly from the axis thereof in the nature of; a spider; member. The feet are preferably formed. by. slitting. the end portion of the wall of the tubular spacer member for a suitable length axially longitudinally andbending the respective segmentsradially outwardly preferably at an. angle substantially perpendicular to said axis. Thus, while the thin plastic sheet is per se quite light, in weight, such weightas there is centrallyof the crown, is held away from thefluffed hair by therelatively, largearea of the feet resting. against the hair at the crown of thehead.

If desired, any suitable tie means. 201 may be employed to, moreseourely position and holdthe capon thehair, manifestly, being of lengthsuijficient to extend. from relatiyely; opposite positions of the elastic band and for. tying nder. t e. hin.

Inoperatiqn thecap is placed uponthe-head by means of-the; opening 12; andstretching and then .contractingthe elasticbahgllfi; flle, feet 1,9 re sting ,lightlyupon the crown of he; h r-,. The flexible .bal1 oon-like portionisthus held sp tantially spagqdrelativetothe hair at itscircumferen- This spacer member preferably is, tubular and,

tial portion by the radially outwardly extending plaits, and by the spacer member at its crown cover portion, providing ample space within the cap for the hair to remain fluffed and to provide an area of space in which heat of the body or from a mechanical device may operate to dry the hair.

The manner of operation of the cap in permanent waving of the hair is basicallythe same as in bleaching and tinting operations as described above, though in permanent waving the entire mass of'the hair maybe subjected to a softening v or so-called waving; lotion. When the, hair has been divided into locks and wound on curling rods on the head and the waving lotion applied thereto the softening action of the lotion is often accentuated by some form of heat, either from the body ormechanically in which case the cap of the present invention may be employed as a covering for the wound hair to promote the action of the waving lotion, or for drying the hair after the waving 10- tion, has been. neutralized as, is Qustomary.

Having thus describedthe invention What is claimed as new and patentableisr 1. In a cap. for coveringthehair having aba-llqon-like body of flexible sheet materialproyided Witha crown-portion and an-elastically expandable andcontractible-opening of lesser diameter than. the crown portion for receiv;

ing therethrough the scalp and hairof the human head,.

the combination therewith of a tubular spacer member extending. into the balloon-like-body and, having one end;

connected at the apex of the crown of the-cap substantially axially of the said crown-portion, the said: spacer member having a radially spread foot:- portion at its, op,-

posite free end, thesaid sheet material of the cap cir curnferentially enclosingtheconnected end portion ofthe spacer member, and. a clamping cup releasably engaged around the said connected end ofv the spacer. memberand the sheetmaterial therearound, whereby. the spacermember may. be selectively removed and-replaced in;the

crown of the balloon-like cap body. a

2. Acap for covering thehair as setforth inrclaim 1,

the said spacer member having; orifices. longitudinally thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent- UNITED STATES. PATENTS 1,589,185 Lithgow June 15, 1926:

2,047,009. Dearing. July 7, 1936 FOREIGN PATENTS 1.51.818. S e and auna-a. Me 2 2: 

